Improvement in bale-bands and buckles



F. M. LUGUE.

Bale-Bands and Buckles.

No.148,890, PatentedMarch24,1874.

UNITED .STATES PATENT QEFICE.

FRANCIS M. LOGUE, OF SATARTIA, MISSISSIPPI.

IMPROVEMENT IN BALE-BANDS AND BUCKLES.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 148,890, dated March 24, 1874; application filed November 29, 1873.

To all whom it may concern:

Beit known that I, FRANCIS M. LoGUE, of Satartia,Yazoo county and State of Mississippi, have invented certain Improvements in Bale- Bands and Buckles, of which the following is a clear, full, and exact description, reference being,` had to the accompanying drawings, makin g a part of this specification, in which- Figure l is a perspective view of my invention. Fig. 2 is a side view of the same. Fig. 3 is the buckle in detached parts.

illy invention relates to that class of balebands and buckles used in baling cotton, hay, and other merchantable articles which are sold in bales; and it consists of a buckle of peculiar construction, adapting,` it for use with a baleband, and is more especially to be used in connection with the machine for baling patented to me.

In Fig. l of the drawings will be seen the manner of looping the bale-band around the bars a b of the buckle; The bar a is shaped as shown in Fig. 8, having the trunnions a' a rounded, so as to be clamped and securely held by my baling-machine, before referred to. The middle portion between the trunnions is lattened, the width being nearly equal to double its thickness, that it may lie at on the bale, and be held irmly by the clamps on the ends of the arms b b. The bar a may be rolled out of the same piece of metal, and be solid with the bale-band. The portion Z1 of the buckle represent-s nearly the three sides ofI a square, the sides or arms b b being provided with the clamps c, as shown in Fig. 2, to fit snugly over the flattened or middle portion of the bar a, and on each side of the bale-band looped around that part of the ilattened bar.

The mode of using,` my bale-band and buckle is as follows: One end of the band is looped over the liattened portion of the bar a, and the other end over the bar b. The band is then drawn around the bale by my patented balingmachine until the flattened portion of the bar a has passed the point of the clamps c c, when the iattened portion is allowed to slip into the clamps, where it is securely held when the machine has been removed.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new is The buckle formed of the parts a and b, constructed as described, in combination with a bale-band, substantially as and for the purpose set forth.

FRANCIS M. LO GUE. lVitnesses W. A. TANGHERD, N. H. HARRIS. 

